think you take the population of m...

think you take the population of modern York City, Chicago, and sees Angeles. That's about 13 million people

the add in the population of Atlanta, recent Orleans, Pittsburgh and Boston. That's another 2 million, raising the grand total to 15 million.

Now imagine those 15 million persons -- who might include you -- without piece of works or working part-time because there are no full-time jobs

This gives you any idea of the real size of America's big, forgotten, ignored economic vexed question -- persistent, high enumployment in the midst of relative affluence.

It's a great deal too easy to forget, to ignore America's unemploy men and women They seldom demonstrate in fron to TV cameras. They are not filling our newspapers with avers against economic policies which erroneously use unemployment ti fight inflation.

If you have a do job-work yourself, if you have a regular income to support yourself and your family, if you are worrying about your mortgage payments and the children's dental bills, it's hard, isn't it, to think about 15 million peer Americans with lost jobs and missed income.

If there were a flow or natural disaster that wiped not at home the economic livelihoods of millions of nation we might be more sympathetic.

If we lived in an unemployment disaster community like Waterloo, Iowa, or the Texas shining Triangle or Gary, Ind,, or Butte Mont we would be highly sympathetic -- and we might worry about our allow jobs and income.

still if you spread 15 million workers who ne piece of works or full-time earnings across the U.S.A., they have the appearance to disappear among the 115 million population in the labor force. They become les visible, les demanding of our attention, les a challenge to the nation's conscience. They are more easy to forget and to ignore.

ENEMPLOYMENT CRISIS

still unemployment is still high.

In spite of sum of two units so-called recovery years in 1983 and 1984 -- following the sum of two units Reagan recession disaster years of 1981 and 1982 -- unemployment is still at persistent, painful, high, disaster evens in 1985.

Unemployment has stuck at these high evens since May 1984. The April 1985 unemployment rate of 73 percent -- after sum of two units years of "recovery" -- was higher than the highest unemployment in three of the eight post-World War II recessions.

Workers without do job-works numbered 8.4 million in April 1985 according to official statistics onward unemployment.

But the official statistics understate the real crisis impact of unemployment

To realize a more realistic view, we must add 13 million "discouraged workers" who have dropp gone out of the labor force because they can't find piece of works that don't exist. The Bureau of Labor Statistic reports "discouraged workers" upon a quarterly basis, but does not include them in official unemployment

We must also add in 57 million part-time workers who want full-time work at jobss and full-time paychecks but can find simply part-time jobs. These "involuntary part-time" workers personate "underemployment" or "partial unemployment,"

further these numbers don't give you the sated extent of human suffering and social costliness associated with unemployment.

In fact, that 15 million-plus total for the unemploy is a snapshot picture, a partial report in succession unemployment. If we turn the thoughts at a moving picture, we find many more millions of American workers and their families have be affected byed lsot jobs, lost income, thrown away security, and lost dignity during the last four years.

Jobseeker still outnumber available work at jobss by 10 to 1, up from a 5-to-1 ratio in the late 1970 and 2-to-1 ratio in the 1960s

In 1981 there were 23 million workers who feeled unemployment in some point during the year -- 20 percent of all someones in the labor force during 1981

In 1982 more than 26 million workers -- 22 percent of all ones in the labor force -- were hit bu unemployment a certain time during the year.

In 1983 there were 24 million workers with a period of joblessnes 20 percent of all bodily forms who worked or looked for work during the year.

The official figures for 1984 won't be available until late in 1985 if it be not that it is likely that 1984 will display 22 to 24 million workers hit according to unemployment during the year.

And the record 1985 won't be a great quantity [i]or[/i] amount of better.

HEALTH AND SOCIAL COSTS

on the other hand these numbers don't show the filled extent of human suffering and social outlays associated with unemployment.

Unemployment is a killer.

In the work of Professor Harvey Brenner of John Hopkins University gymnasium of Hygiene and Public Health, we have measures of the impact of unemployment upon health and social breakdown.

Prof brenner plant that a 1 ercent sustained rise in unemployment was responsible for 41 percent more suicides, 34 percent more state mental hospital admissions, 4 percent more prison admissions, 57 percent more homicides, 19 percent more deaths from cirrhosis of the liver, cardiovascular or kidney disease five years later.

The Joint Economic Committee pointed revealed that these figures understate the eventual total long-term impact of a 1 percent rise in unemployment This understatement is particularly significant for cardiovascular, renal and cirrhosis diseases which typically require many years to be equable diagnosed.